No industry remains untouched by the potential of Big Data – and the cyber-security sector is certainly no exception. A recent MarketsandMarkets study predicted the cyber-security analytics market would grow from $2.83 Billion US in 2016 to $9.38 Billion in 2021, a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 27.1%.
This reason for this vast growth is relatively straightforward to understand. With an ever-more sophisticated and better-funded attack environment, many of the most insidious and potentially dangerous threats demand very deep insight into an organization’s data, networks, and usage for detection.